“What is it that today makes true followers of Christ cast luxuries aside, leave pleasure behind, and endure difficulties and pain? It is living faith that expresses itself through love. It is this that makes us put aside the goods of the present in the hope of future goods. It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.” 

                                            ~St. Fidelis

For Reflection:

Using St. Fidelis’ definition of living faith, can my own walk of faith be categorized accordingly?

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                 STRATEGY 4 UNITING OUR SUFFERINGS TO CHRIST

As John Paul II reminds us in Salvifici Doloris:  In suffering there is concealed a particular power that draws a person interiorly close to Christ, a special grace....When this body is gravely ill, totally incapacitated, and the person is almost incapable of living and acting, all the more do interior maturity and spiritual greatness become evident, constituting a touching lesson to those who are healthy and normal.--SalVifici Dolores, No 26